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Re: ANN: a portable data component -- length

• From: Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@talsever.com>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 13:59:45 -0400

On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 18:39:18 +0100, Stephen D Green wrote:
> If a system finds an ISO date "2011-13-01" it can report it invalid.
> It does not know whether it is the month which is wrong or the order
> of month and day. If it is meant to be ISO format a la xsd:date then
> it might be a good guess that the month is wrong but that might not
> necessarily be true. It just reports that it is not a valid date and the
> error gets caught, according to externally defined logic about dates.

An excellent demonstration of the weaknesses of ISO date format.  Thank 
you.

:-)

Amy!
-- 
Amelia A. Lewis                    amyzing {at} talsever.com
Money can't buy happiness, but poverty can't buy *anything*.

• References:
  • ANN: a portable data component -- length
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: ANN: a portable data component -- length
    • From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
  • Re: ANN: a portable data component -- length
    • From: Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@talsever.com>
  • Re: ANN: a portable data component -- length
    • From: Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>